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by rhino369 1759 days ago
I'm skeptical that the Taliban leadership in 2001 would have actually followed any agreement in the long term. I'm envisioning them getting amnesty and then fleeing to Pakistan to start up the same insurgency they did anyway--just with less of their leadership killed by US bombs.

It's certainly not a risk I'd have taken without the hindsight that we have now.